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>Your average American that "can't handle cheese responsibly" will try it once, have a terrible 12h and swear off drugs for life

You severely underestimate how much most people want to escape their lives, even if the experience is negative. It's silly to act like people don't self-harm.

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If they want to escape their lives they'll just become an alcoholic.

I'm not denying that people will self-harm. But the argument that people will self-harm with LSD needs to ignore that there's plenty of better drugs legalised already

Alcohol is much worse than LSD

In a way. It has much worse physical outcomes over the long term especially if you’re drinking humongous amounts. However, alcohol/nicotine etc. don’t change your modality of thought processes or your underlying perspectives on life. Anecdotally from that perspective LSD is way, way more destructive. It can reconstruct you as a shell of the person you were, and very quickly. I’ve seen it happen so many times and anyone arguing the alcohol is worse than LSD is missing the forest for the tree.

>However, alcohol/nicotine etc. don’t change your modality of thought processes or your underlying perspectives on life.

Go to a couple of AA meetings and say that again.

>You severely underestimate how much most people want to escape their lives

Hey, lets optimize society for human happiness and enjoyment without escapism then...

Moloch: "Now just hold the fuck up, I have some corporations to run"

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